There are two easy ways of writing an article. When the creative juices dry up, when the mind aches as it is made to cogitate over novel ideas, and when one is at one's wit's end, there are two kinds of topics which are almost insultingly easy to write upon. The first is a rant. [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Comedy
I must have said it before but I would like to say it again that comedy is one of the most exhilarating experiences I generally have. It ranks up there with good music, sports, literature and art. I have very limited understanding of these fields but then as they say, 'to each his own'. Interestingly, [...]
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Only today it dawned upon me that the word 'certain' can be used in two exactly opposite senses. As in: 'I am certain that...' and'He was referring to a certain Mr. Mullins' The same word shows both concreteness and ambiguity when used in two different sentences. It is easy to find words which have more [...]
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Language poses several important questions to me. I mean several moral and rational questions since for me it is sort of a representation through which other deeper issues of life manifest themselves. And I guess that is quite alright since with every thing that is created by man, language in the process of creation has [...]
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The Barman
Man: Barman, there seems to be something in my shot. Barman: Well sir, I suppose that is an entirely personal matter. Man: What do you mean ? It was you who gave me the shot surely. Barman: What an absolutely rib-tickling idea my dear sir ! I would concede that in my capacity as a [...]
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Mr. Numb Nuts
Nuts: It would be a matter of immense satisfaction and great mollification to my increasingly dehydrating and, by now, almost parched laryngeal part of the pharynx, which colloquially, I am assuming, is denoted by a 'throat', if you would be so kind as to furnish me with the means and ends for soaking these cracking [...]
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